[comp.sys.mac] HD Rescuing

isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock) (04/01/88)

In article <369@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>MacZap to the rescue!  It's available for about $35 mail-order, and
>well worth it.  As a side note, if anything terrible does happen to
>your hard disk (i.e., more than just needing to rebuild the desktop),
>DON'T (I repeat, DON'T), let any so-called "disk saver" utilities
>"fix" the disk.  This includes Disk First Aid (which usually only
>works on mountable disks anyway), and MacTools (which will helpfully
>offer to mount an unmountable disk and thereby erase the directory).

Now that's certainly a first.  NOT use Disk First Aid?  Why on earth not?
I have NEVER, EVER heard of Disk First Aid further damaging a disk.  It
can't do the job 80% of the time, but when it can, I've always found it
works.

As for MacZap, I highly recommend it as a very good recovery program for
both floppies and hard disks.

Ken


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